Disclaimer or CYA Statement: This story is fiction and none of
the characters, be they created in my mind or be they celebrities are to my
knowledge gay. I do not know any of the celebrities in this story and do not
claim to know if they are gay, or straight. Also I am not into digging up
a lot of junk about bands or people, so you should know that not everything
is accurate. You will not find real life couples in this story, since I am
sadly convinced that most are nothing but shams designed by record companies
anyway.

This is a story about friendship, love, romance, and family. While
it will in time also include making love, this is certainly not a sex story.
You really should be legal to read this story and of course if you are not,
then at least do not get caught! Seriously, by reading this story you are
agreeing that you are in fact of legal age, where you live, to be reading
it. You may contact me at:wildheart407@runbox.comif you have comments, suggestions or whatever.

This story will be written with different points of view (POV),
first person, and third person (narrator). The changes in POV should be easy
to follow as I will try to clearly mark them.

AUTHORS NOTES:I just wanted to take a moment and vent
about something. Why do people start to write a story and then not post anything
for months or even years? Why do people stop writing a story simply because
they did not get any e-mail? To me that just seems rude and really sad!! I
just get tired of starting a story and then finding that they author did not
even bother to finish it. Ok done bitching now...sorry!! J

I will soon be opening a yahoo group for this story and any other
that I write and any others that anyone would like to allow me to use. I would
rather have stories about love, romance and or friends and family. I also
hope to build a web site sometime soon, and would REALLY like to host other
stories on that site, so if you have a story and would allow it to be posted,
let me know. If anyone out there would like to help me with the web site please
let me know.

JOEY POV

Still slightly in shock, we waited for the person behind the voice.
As the door opened we were all even more shocked to see Cole standing there.
Of course none of us had forgotten him, but we certainly didn't expect to
see him here of all places. "Hi ya'll, how are ya doing? I hope that the presentation
was not too bad. I just didn't have a lot of time to put it together. I can
assure that the concert will come off much better than that presentation.
If you would rather have someone else to work with, just let me know and I
will assign someone else to work with you." Cole said in a rambling and nervous
way.

We all looked at him like he had grown three heads and horns. "Why
on earth would we want someone else? That presentation was the best we have
ever seen and we have seen a lot of them." I said. "That is an understatement."
Lance said with a giggle.

"Then you guys need to get someone else to be giving your presentations.
Trust me, if I had more time, I would have at least been able to make it a
little better." Cole said. "I guess that we need to try and determine which
location you wanna use and then we can start the planning process from there."

"I like the lake location at Epcot® and I would bet you guys do
too, don't you?" I asked as I looked at the others.

Everyone agreed with me, and so that is where we decided to have
the show. The guys then looked to me and waited for
me to start the discussion about what we had planned, so I sighed and started.
"Cole, we did not wanna do this concert, and really had no intention of doing
it, but you have convinced us. That said, we have also decided that it is
time to end the little supposed war between the boy bands. We are friends
with the BSB and both groups are tired of our managements trying to make it
seem we are at war, so all 10 of us have talked. We decided that this will
be a joint concert, but word of it can't get out and no one in management
can know about it. We will plan like we would normally, but we need separate
plans that only those of us in this room, and the BSB know about. We wanna
do a mix of our songs and theirs as well as a lot of Christmas music. Do you
think it possible to do?"

"Wow, ok let me think for a minute. You want both groups to perform
and you want that kept quiet til you are on stage?" I asked; only to get nods
from all of them. "I think we could do that, but I will have to think about
it more to go over the logistics of it. Now I understand that this is to be
a concert and TV special as well, so I need to know if you are going to do
a full two hour show or longer, and I need to know what you will want to do
during commercial breaks."

JUSTIN POV

Basically we sat the whole meeting with Joey and Cole talking and
planning. I was glad that I did not have to be up on all those details! I
let my mind drift, and thought back over the last few months. Things had been
tense for a while, but after lots of talking we had worked passed it. I shivered
a little at what could have happened when Joey and Lance broke up, but thanked
God that we were all still friends and that I still had my Chris. I wished
that my mind would move on, but it seemed to want to drift over everything.
Josh was a lost puppy, no one knew who or what he wanted, he
seemed to be asexual. We have no clue if he is gay or not, since he dates
no one.

Thoughts turned from Josh to this concert. This would be the first
wake up call to management. They have no idea that they are being dropped
at the first of the year. Of course BSB were dropping their management as
well. Both of us had had it with all the crazy schedules, the lying, and all
that. This concert is just one of the nasty little paybacks that they had
been throwing at us since we held the concert for Cole's friends. They did
not want us to have that concert and had a hissy fit about it, and ever since
they have been petty and spiteful.

Johnny had been good to us in the past, but he had let all this
happen and we just can't allow that anymore. We had all agreed and even though
we had not checked into new management yet, we had decided that we would send
the termination letter on January 2nd. Joey had it checked out
and found that they had slipped a little surprise in our contract, and for
some reason out lawyers did not tell us about it. Our contract goes into automatic
renewal on January 4th if we do not notify them in writing beforehand.
We have the letter ready, and it will be filed in the court clerks office and delivered to Johnny in plenty of time.

It is almost a dream to think that we will have time off with no
worries about a new record, packing for any reason, just time to hangout and
chill. I guess we will go looking for a new record company and a new management
company at the same time. I am just so thrilled that we have no contracts
and have nothing, absolutely nothing we have to do, until WE want to.

I leaned over to Chris and whispered that we needed to take Cole
out to eat and tell him about all of us, and put the nasty part of our past
behind us. He nodded and he whispered to Josh. As it went around, I saw that
it was agreed on. I hoped that he would be open to listening to us.

Soon the meeting was over and Joey and Cole had agreed to most everything,
but there would still have to be more meetings. I hate meetings, but at least
Cole was prepared and knew what he was talking about.

"Cole, you are coming with us to lunch and we will not take no for
an answer, if I have to get your boss to order you to go, I will!" I said,
knowing that he would have no choice.

"I am afraid you will not have much luck with that, I have to meet
my boss and her boss and whoever else is coming, for lunch. Sorry about that,
but there is no way to get out of that lunch." He said with a smile. I would
be willing to bet that he will try to avoid us as much as he can. He is stubborn
and he thinks that we hate him. I hope we can get this fixed soon, cause Cole is too nice a guy for this crap.

COLE POV

I was so glad that this meeting was over! I was also very glad that
I had to go to the meeting, which I had not been looking forward to. I didn't
want to go out to eat with them, or do anything else with them for that matter.
I couldn't think of a way to apologize for making an ass of myself and I certainly
would not beg to be forgiven.

My day seemed to drag by and that meeting with upper management
had been worse than I could have ever imagined. They were concerned about
costs, about every little detail and I could not give them those answers until
final plans had been made. I went over all the plans that had been made so
far and told them that I would be meeting with the group several more times
to finish plans.

Then I had to try and figure out a way to get the BSB in without
anyone knowing about it. I thought and thought, and I could only come up with
one way to do it. I certainly did not want to do it, but really had no choice.
Over the next few days, I met with the group again and we fleshed out all
the plans and soon were done, with the exception of the song list, which I
had to have. I asked about it and Joey told me that we would have to sit down
with BSB and decide the list!

This was really bad; I knew there was no way to meet them at work,
so that meant I would have to meet them privately, which I had been trying
to avoid. At the last meeting the following week, only one week before the
show, Joey told me that I would be picked up after work Friday, to meet with
both groups. I could not say no, since it had to be done and my bosses were
about to rip me open for not having the song list.

All day on Friday I was cranky and nervous, basically a stone cold
bitch. I knew that this meeting would go badly; there was just no way around
it. I would not beg and I did not want to be friends. I wanted to get it over
with and go on with my life, no matter how pathetic it was.